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“We will continue to do the work we’ve been doing. And we will do it with a more robust team that brings a broader set of skills to the table.”

Robert G. Shibley, Dean

School of Architecture and Planning

The UB Regional Institute, known for its cutting-edge policy
research, and the Urban Design Project (UDP), a key contributor to
planning and place-making efforts throughout the region, are
joining forces.

Already two of UB’s most active and relevant research
centers, the alliance of the Regional Institute and UDP will
strengthen the capacity of the School of Architecture and Planning
to produce public scholarship in service to the community and build
a new infrastructure to support faculty research.

“The Regional Institute has been the go-to source for
practical policy research for more than a decade,” said
Robert G. Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning.
“And our Urban Design Project has been closely involved in
many of the most important planning initiatives in Buffalo Niagara
since 1990. We’ll be even better together.

“We will continue to do the work we’ve been
doing,” Shibley said. “And we will do it with a more
robust team that brings a broader set of skills to the table. Our
expertise will be more diverse. The potential to come up with new
solutions to old problems will be so much greater.”

Members of the new team also are poised to support faculty
members with burgeoning research programs spanning topics as
diverse as food-systems security, responses to climate change,
green transportation, inclusive design, situated technologies (the
use of technology embedded in buildings), sustainable community
development, planning for extreme events (such as earthquakes or
hurricanes) and many others.

Staff members in both centers are supported largely by the
proceeds of the work they produce. They also will help leverage the
sponsored research dollars that will support students set to enter
a new PhD program in planning directed by Samina Raja starting next
year.

Shibley will oversee the operations of both the institute and
UDP for the immediate future, while institute Director Kathryn A.
Foster takes a one-year sabbatical to conduct research at the
prestigious Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

The architecture school plans to hire an associate dean for
research, who will direct both the operations of the allied
research centers and provide support to faculty researchers across
both departments in the school.

Interim Provost Harvey G. Stenger Jr. said the new alliance puts
the School of Architecture and Planning in a strong position to
contribute to the continued growth of sponsored research and the
fulfillment of UB’s role as a great public research
university.

“We are in the business of producing knowledge in the
public interest,” Stenger said. “Aligning two of our
most productive and capable centers with the research agendas of
our faculty equips the School of Architecture and Planning to
contribute to the core institutional mission in greater measure
than ever before.”

Shibley emphasized that the alliance of the Regional Institute
and UDP was only the first step in mounting a schoolwide strategy
to increase external funding for research and expand public
service.

“The faculty in our school have always conducted socially
relevant research,” Shibley said, “and we have always
done work in the community. What will be different now is that we
will be working together to make it better—through this new
alliance and through the appointment of an associate dean whose
main job is to encourage faculty research.”

Shibley praised the work of Foster, a widely recognized
authority on regional governance who has led the Regional Institute
for the past six years. “Kate Foster has done a great
job,” Shibley said. “During her tenure, the institute
has become even more important in the life of Buffalo
Niagara.”

Under Foster’s leadership, the institute greatly
diversified its funding and research portfolio, growing in value in
the community as a source of objective and innovative
research—“decision support”—on some of the
region’s most pressing issues.

It most recently completed a series of studies on the role of
higher education in the new economy, a comprehensive assessment of
Buffalo Niagara’s labor market and a report on the status of
women and girls. It also developed an online repository of data on
the bi-national region, built a cross-border governance research
program and launched a policy brief series providing analysis on
timely topics for the region.

The institute will continue to be located in the UB Downtown
Gateway.

The Urban Design Project has established a similarly
distinguished record in urban design and planning. Under
Shibley’s leadership, the UDP produced the recent
comprehensive plan for the City of Buffalo, including plans for
Downtown, the waterfront, and the Olmsted parks and parkway
system.

UDP staff also worked closely with Shibley in creating Building
UB: the Comprehensive Physical Plan, the capital development
component of UB 2020 that helped set the agenda for negotiations in
Albany leading to support for the move of the School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences to the Downtown Campus.